ACM FAccT Conference

ACM FAccT 2023 Program

Time is local time in Chicago (UTC-5).

9:00am - 10:30am Doctoral Colloquium I and CRAFT I
Doctoral Colloquium DEI Fellows Session CRAFT 1
Jackson A ONLINE ONLY Jackson C
(Only for PhD students selected through the call for DC.) FUBU: Community and Care in Conferences and Research #DragVsAI: Exploring Facial Recognition Technologies through Embodied Algorithmic Tinkering
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Jackson B ONLINE
Responsibly Working with Crowdsourced Data Towards an India-first Responsible AI research agenda
10:30am - 11:00am Break
11:00am - 12:00pm Doctoral Colloquium II and CRAFT II
Doctoral Colloquium (cont.) CRAFT 4 (ends at 12:30pm) CRAFT 5 (ends at 12:15pm)
Jackson A Jackson B Jackson C
Language Models and Society: Bridging Research and Policy The Road to the Table: Laying the Foundation for a Black Feminist Impact Assessment
CRAFT 6 cancelled CRAFT 7 (ends at 12:30pm)
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Mapping the Risk Surface of Text-to-Image AI: A Participatory, Cross-Disciplinary Workshop
12:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm - 1:45pm Welcome by General Chairs
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1:45pm - 2:45pm Keynote I: Dr. Alondra Nelson, Institute for Advanced Study
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2:45pm - 3:15pm Break
3:15pm - 4:15pm Proceedings I
Paper session 1: Decisions, Trust, & Reliance Paper session 2: Revisiting Trade-Offs and Impossibility Theorems Paper session 3: Auditing
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· Certification Labels for Trustworthy AI: Insights From an Empirical Mixed-Method Study
· On the Impact of Explanations on Understanding of Algorithmic Decision-Making
· Towards a Science of Human-AI Decision Making: An Overview of Design Space in Empirical Human-Subject Studies
· Machine Explanations and Human Understanding
· Humans, AI, and Context: Understanding End-Users' Trust in a Real-World Computer Vision Application
 · The Possibility of Fairness: Revisiting the Impossibility Theorem in Practice
· Maximal Fairness
· Enhancing AI fairness through impact assessment in the European Union: a legal and computer science perspective
· Help or Hinder? Evaluating the Impact of Fairness Metrics and Algorithms in Visualizations for Consensus Ranking
· Simplicity Bias Leads to Amplified Performance Disparities
 · A Sociotechnical Audit: Assessing Police Use of Facial Recognition
· Navigating the Audit Landscape: A framework for developing transparent and auditable XR
· Which Stereotypes Are Moderated and Under-Moderated in Search Engine Autocompletion?
· AI Regulation Is (not) All You Need
· Examining risks of racial biases in NLP tools for child protective services
Paper session 4: Self-reflection
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· Interrogating the T in FAccT
· Representation in AI Evaluations
· A Systematic Review of Ethics Disclosures in Predictive Mental Health Research
· The ethical ambiguity of AI data enrichment: Measuring gaps in research ethics norms and practices.
· WEIRD FAccTs: How Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic is FAccT?
4:15pm - 4:30pm Break
4:30pm - 6:00pm Tutorials I and CRAFT III
Tutorial 1 Tutorial 2 Tutorial 3
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Practice Tutorial: Finding and Using Undocumented APIs for Algorithm Audits Practice Tutorial: Using the NIST AI Risk Management Framework Practice Tutorial: Responsible AI Toolbox
CRAFT 8 CRAFT 9 CRAFT 10
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From Research Insight to Policy Impact - How You Can Engage in Current AI Policy Debates User Engagement in Algorithm Testing and Auditing: Exploring Opportunities and Tensions between Practitioners and End Users Automation of Elder Care

8:30am - 8:45am Welcome Notes
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8:45am - 9:45am Keynote II: Ziad Obermeyer - Dissecting health algorithms
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9:45am - 10:15am Break
10:15am - 11:45am Tutorials II and CRAFT IV
Tutorial 4 Tutorials 5a, 5b CRAFT 11
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Implications Tutorial: Generative AI meets Responsible AI: Practical Challenges and Opportunities (10:15am) Translation Tutorial: Contextualizing AI with Cross-Cultural Perspectives
(11:00am) Implications Tutorial: AI Governance and Policy in the US - Spotlight on the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights
 The “Digital Trade” Sneak Attack on AI Oversight & Regulation Underway Today
CRAFT 12 CRAFT 13
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Digital Apartheid and the Horn of Africa AI ethics landscape in Chinese tech industry: regulatory policy, research, and practice
11:45am - 1:15pm Lunch
1:15pm - 2:15pm Keynote III: Alex Hanna (DAIR Institute), Brook Hansen, Krista Pawloski, Krystal Kauffman (Turkopticon)
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2:25pm - 3:25pm Proceedings II
Paper session 5: Explainability (limitations) Paper session 6: Racial bias Paper session 7: Values and representation
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· Diagnosing AI Explanation Methods with Folk Concepts of Behavior
· How to Explain and Justify Almost Any Decision: Potential Pitfalls for Accountability in AI Decision-Making
· Questioning the ability of feature-based explanations to empower non-experts in robo-advised financial decision-making
· Explainable AI is Dead, Long Live Explainable AI! Hypothesis-driven Decision Support using Evaluative AI
· Explainability in AI Policies: A Critical Review of Communications, Reports, Regulations, and Standards in the EU, US and UK
 · An Empirical Analysis of Racial Categories in the Algorithmic Fairness Literature
· Datafication Genealogies beyond Algorithmic Fairness: Making Up of Racialised Subjects
· How Redundant are Redundant Encodings? Blindness in the Wild and Racial Disparity when Race is Unobserved
· Envisioning Equitable Speech Technologies for Black Older Adults
· Skin Deep: Investigating Subjectivity in Skin Tone Annotations for Computer Vision Benchmark Datasets
 · Broadening AI Ethics Narratives: An Indic Art View
· AI’s Regimes of Representation: A Community-centered Study of Text-to-Image Models in South Asia
· Invigorating Ubuntu Ethics in AI for healthcare: Enabling equitable care
· Honor Ethics: The Challenge of Globalizing Value Alignment in AI
· In her Shoes: Gendered Labelling in Crowdsourced Safety Perceptions Data from India
Paper session 8: Healthcare
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· Care and Coordination in Algorithmic Systems: An Economies of Worth Approach
· Organizational governance of emerging technologies: AI adoption in healthcare
· Two Reasons for Subjecting Medical AI Systems to Lower Standards than Humans
· What’s fair is... fair? Presenting JustEFAB, an ethical framework for operationalizing medical ethics and social justice in the integration of clinical machine learning
· Improving Fairness in AI Models on Electronic Health Records: the case for Federated Learning Methods
3:25pm - 3:45pm Break
3:45pm - 4:45pm Proceedings III
Paper session 9: Market-based approaches Paper session 10: Normative philosophy & AI Paper session 11: Networks & Platforms
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· FairAssign: Stochastically Fair Driver Assignment in Gig Delivery Platforms
· Implementing Fairness Constraints in Markets Using Taxes and Subsidies
· Using Supervised Learning to Estimate Inequality in the Size and Persistence of Income Shocks
· Your Browsing History May Cost You: A Framework for Discovering Differential Pricing in Non-Transparent Markets
· A Theory of Auditability for Allocation and Social Choice Mechanisms
 · Optimization's Neglected Normative Commitments
· Making Intelligence: Ethical Values in IQ and ML Benchmarks
· Harms from Increasingly Agentic Algorithmic Systems
· On the Site of Predictive Justice
 · Reducing Access Disparities in Networks using Edge Augmentation
· Group fairness without demographics using social networks
· Delayed and Indirect Impacts of Link Recommendations
· Does AI-Assisted Fact-Checking Disproportionately Benefit Majority Groups Online?
· Addressing contingency in algorithmic (mis)information classification: Toward a responsible machine learning agenda
Paper session 12: Participatory AI
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· Towards Labor Transparency in Situated Computational Impact Research
· The Dimensions of Data Labor: A Road Map for Researchers, Activists, and Policymakers to Empower Data Producers
· Going public: the role of public participation approaches in commercial AI labs
· Queer In AI: A Case Study in Community-Led Participatory AI
· AI in the Public Eye: Building Public AI Literacy through Critical AI Art
4:45pm - 5:00pm Break
5:00pm - 6:30pm Tutorials III and CRAFT V
Tutorial 6 (ends at 6:00pm) Tutorial 7 (ends at 6:30pm) CRAFT 14
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Practice Tutorial: Integrating Notions of Fairness and Demographic Variance Into Large Personalized Advertising Systems Translation Tutorial: Using Technical Skills to Fight Actual Public Benefits Cuts and Austerity Policies, with the Benefits Tech Advocacy Hub "AI Art" and Its Impact on Artists
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Assessing the Impacts of Generative AI Systems Across Modalities and Society Bringing People In to High-Stakes System Design: Concrete Challenges and Emerging Lessons
7:00pm - 8:30pm Recursion: a play by Andrew Gelman and Jessica Hullman
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8:30am - 8:45am Welcome Notes
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8:45am - 9:45am Keynote IV: Moritz Hardt, Director at Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems - The power of predictions
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9:45am - 10:15am Break
10:15am - 11:45am Tutorials IV and CRAFT VI
Tutorials 8a, 8b Tutorial 9 CRAFT 17
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(10:15am) Translation Tutorial: Steering Language Models with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback and Constitutional AI
(11:00am) Translation Tutorial: Theories of Propaganda and New Technology: Applications and Interventions
 Translation Tutorial: Practices and Limitations of Participatory Methods: Views From Computer Science, Political Science and Design Lived Experiences of «Reform Tech» in Criminal Legal and Immigration Systems
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Theories of Change in Responsible AI Investigating and Challenging Algorithmic Welfare Systems
11:45am - 1:15pm Lunch
1:15pm - 2:15pm Keynote V: Payal Arora, Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam - Feminist design principles in the future of global work
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2:25pm - 3:25pm Proceedings IV
Paper session 13: Targeted advertising Paper session 14: Practical methods Paper session 15: Speech & emotion recognition
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· Reconciling Governmental Use of Online Targeting With Democracy
· Discrimination through Image Selection by Job Advertisers on Facebook
· Representation, Self-Determination, and Refusal: Queer People's Experiences with Targeted Advertising
· The slow violence of surveillance capitalism: How online behavioral advertising harms people
· Diverse Perspectives Can Mitigate Political Bias in Crowdsourced Content Moderation
 · Preventing Discriminatory Decision-making in Evolving Data Stream
· Group-Fair Classification with Strategic Agents
· Add-Remove-or-Relabel: Practitioner-Friendly Bias Mitigation via Influential Fairness
· Fairer Together: Mitigating Disparate Exposure in Kemeny Rank Aggregation
· Domain Adaptive Decision Trees: Implications for Accuracy and Fairness
 · You Sound Depressed: A Case Study on Sonde Health's Diagnostic Use of Voice Analysis AI
· (Anti)-Intentional Harms: The Conceptual Pitfalls of Emotion AI in Education
· On the Praxes and Politics of AI Speech Emotion Recognition
· Ethical considerations in the early detection of Alzheimer's disease using speech and AI
· Augmented Datasheets for Speech Datasets and Ethical Decision-Making
Paper session 16: Measurement in the wild
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· Algorithms as Social-Ecological-Technological Systems: an Environmental Justice lens on Algorithmic Audits
· Detecting disparities in police deployments using dashcam data
· Measuring and mitigating voting access disparities: a study of race and polling locations in Florida and North Carolina
· Cross-Institutional Transfer Learning for Educational Models: Implications for Model Performance, Fairness, and Equity
· Bias Against 93 Stigmatized Groups in Masked Language Models and Downstream Sentiment Classification Tasks
3:25pm - 3:45pm Break
3:45pm - 4:45pm Proceedings V
Paper session 17: Risks and policy of generative models Paper session 18: Privacy Paper session 19: Sociology & machine learning
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· Contrastive Language-Vision AI Models Pretrained on Web-Scraped Multimodal Data Exhibit Sexual Objectification Bias
· "I wouldn't say offensive but...": Disability-Centered Perspectives on Large Language Models
· The Gradient of Generative AI Release: Methods and Considerations
· Disparities in Text-to-Image Model Concept Possession Across Languages
· On the Independence of Association Bias and Empirical Fairness in Language Models
 · More Data Types More Problems: A Temporal Analysis of Complexity, Stability, and Sensitivity in Privacy Policies
· Can Querying for Bias Leak Protected Attributes? Achieving Privacy With Smooth Sensitivity
· Data Collaboratives with the Use of Decentralised Learning - an Alternative Approach to Data Governance
· In the Name of Fairness: Assessing the Bias in Clinical Record De-identification
· The Privacy-Bias Tradeoff: Data Minimization and Racial Disparity Assessments in U.S. Government
 · Affordances' for Machine Learning
· Fairness in machine learning from the perspective of sociology of statistics: How machine learning is becoming scientific by turning its back on metrological realism
· Capturing Humans' Mental Models of AI: An Item Response Theory Approach
· Algorithmic Decisions, Desire for Control, and the Preference for Human Review over Algorithmic Review
· Emotions and Dynamic Assemblages: A Study of Automated Social Security Using Qualitative Longitudinal Research
Paper session 20: Recommendation systems
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· UNFair: Search Engine Manipulation, Undetectable by Amortized Inequity
· Auditing Cross-Cultural Consistency of Human-Annotated Labels for Recommendation Systems
· The Many Faces of Fairness: Exploring the Institutional Logics of Multistakeholder Microlending Recommendation
· Representation Online Matters: Practical End-to-end Diversification in Search and Recommender Systems
· "I Think You Might Like This": Exploring Effects of Confidence Signal Patterns on Trust in and Reliance on Conversational Recommender Systems
4:45pm - 5:00pm Break
5:00pm - 6:00pm Proceedings VI
Paper session 21: Algorithms in the wild Paper session 22: AI Regulation & the EU AI Act Paper session 23: Fairness and diversity I
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· Disentangling and Operationalizing AI Fairness at LinkedIn
· Algorithmic Transparency and Accountability through Crowdsourcing: A Study of the NYC School Admission Lottery
· The Devil is in the Details: Interrogating Values Embedded in the Allegheny Family Screening Tool
· Bias as Boundary Object: Unpacking the Politics of an Austerity Algorithm using Bias Frameworks
· The Progression of Disparities within the Criminal Justice System: Differential Enforcement and Risk Assessment Instruments
 · Stronger Together: on the Articulation of Ethical Charters, Legal Tools, and Technical Documentation in ML
· To Be High-Risk, or Not To Be—Semantic Specifications and Implications of the AI Act's High-Risk AI Applications and Harmonised Standards
· The role of explainable AI in the context of the AI Act
· Regulating ChatGPT and other Large Generative AI Models
· Understanding accountability in algorithmic supply chains
 · "I'm fully who I am": Towards Centering Transgender and Non-Binary Voices to Measure Biases in Open Language Generation
· Easily Accessible Text-to-Image Generation Amplifies Demographic Stereotypes at Large Scale
· On The Impact of Machine Learning Randomness on Group Fairness
· Detection and Mitigation of Algorithmic Bias via Predictive Parity
Paper session 24: Model evaluation
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· Ground(less) Truth: A Causal Framework for Proxy Labels in Human-Algorithm Decision-Making
· ACROCPoLis: A Descriptive Framework for Making Sense of Fairness
· "How Biased are Your Features?": Computing Fairness Influence Functions with Global Sensitivity Analysis
· Fairness Auditing of Urban Decisions using LP-based Data Combination
· Counterfactual Prediction Under Outcome Measurement Error

8:30am - 8:45am Welcome Notes
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8:45am - 9:45am Keynote VI: Conversation with US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Chair, Charlotte Burrows: Civil Rights and AI in Employment
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9:45am - 10:15am Break
10:15am - 11:45am Tutorials V and CRAFT VII
Tutorials 10a, 10b Tutorial 11 CRAFT 20 cancelled
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(10:15am) Translation Tutorial: A Guiding Framework for Vetting Technology Vendors Operating in the Public Sector
(11:00am) Practice Tutorial: When the Rubber Meets the Road: Experience Implementing AI Governance in a Public Agency with the City of San José
 Translation Tutorial: A Hands-On Introduction to Large Language Models for Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency Researchers
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Resisting the New Jim Code in the Old South: Lessons from the Field Community-collaborative visions for computing research Humanitarian AI for the Global South
11:45am - 1:15pm Lunch
1:15pm - 2:15pm Proceedings VII
Paper session 25: Algorithmic Discrimination - Legal/Technical perspectives Paper session 26: Transparency Paper session 27: Metrics
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· Gender Animus Can Still Exist Under Favorable Disparate Impact: a Cautionary Tale from Online P2P Lending
· Multi-dimensional discrimination in Law and Machine Learning - A comparative overview
· Algorithmic Unfairness through the Lens of EU Non-Discrimination Law: Or Why the Law is Not a Decision Tree
· Legal Taxonomies of Machine Bias: Revisiting Direct Discrimination
· Striving for Affirmative Algorithmic Futures: How the Social Sciences can Promote more Equitable and Just Algorithmic System Design
 · Rethinking Transparency as a Communicative Constellation
· Algorithmic Transparency from the South Examining the state of algorithmic transparency in Chile's public administration algorithms
· Co-Design Perspectives on Algorithm Transparency Reporting: Guidelines and Prototypes
· Welfarist Moral Grounding for Transparent Artificial Intelligence
· Co-Designing for Transparency: Lessons from Building a Document Organization Tool in the Criminal Justice Domain
 · On (assessing) the fairness of risk score models
· Runtime Monitoring of Dynamic Fairness Properties
· The Misuse of AUC: What High Impact Risk Assessment Gets Wrong
· On the Richness of Calibration
· Bias on Demand: A Modelling Framework That Generates Synthetic Data With Bias
Paper session 28: Multiplicity
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· Against Predictive Optimization: On the Legitimacy of Decision-Making Algorithms that Optimize Predictive Accuracy
· Reconciling Individual Probability Forecasts
· The Dataset Multiplicity Problem: How Unreliable Data Impacts Predictions
· Multi-Target Multiplicity: Flexibility and Fairness in Target Specification under Resource Constraints
· Arbitrary Decisions are a Hidden Cost of Differentially Private Training
2:15pm - 2:30pm Break
2:30pm - 3:30pm Proceedings VII and CRAFT VIII
Paper session 29: Workplace Paper session 30: Power & resistance Paper session 31: Fairness and diversity II
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· It's about power: What ethical concerns do software engineers have, and what do they (feel they can) do about them?
· Can Workers Meaningfully Consent to Workplace Wellbeing Technologies?
· Investigating Practices and Opportunities for Cross-functional Collaboration around AI Fairness in Industry Practice
· "We try to empower them" - Exploring Future Technologies to Support Migrant Jobseekers
· Walking the Walk of AI Ethics: Organizational Challenges and the Individualization of Risk among Ethics Entrepreneurs
 · Who Should Pay When Machines Cause Harm? Laypeople's Expectations of Legal Damages for Machine-Caused Harm
· Taking Algorithms to Courts: A Relational Approach to Algorithmic Accountability
· Ghosting the Machine: Judicial Resistance to a Recidivism Risk Assessment Instrument
· Trustworthy AI and the Logics of Intersectional Resistance
· Power and Resistance in the Twitter Bias Discourse
 · Achieving diversity in counterfactual explanations: a review and a discussion
· Saliency Cards: A Framework to Characterize and Compare Saliency Methods
· Robustness implies Fairness in Casual Algorithmic Recourse
· Personalized Pricing with Group Fairness Constraint
· We are adults and deserve control of our phones': Examining the risks and opportunities of a right to repair for mobile apps
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Legal Accountability in Europe — what litigation and regulatory action against big tech digital media platforms could mean for global tech
3:30pm - 4:00pm Break
4:00pm - 5:00pm Keynote VII: Trina Reynolds-Tyler and Tarak Shah - The Community Built a Model: Using Participatory AI to Analyze Chicago Police Data
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5:00pm - 6:00pm Town Hall
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